Egg-beater or churn



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`ESI PATENT OFFICE.

J. J. PARKER, OF MARIETTA, OHIO.

EGG-BEATER OR CHURN.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, J. J. PARKER, of the city of Marietta, county ofVashington, and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Egg-Beaterand Ohurn Combined; and I do hereby declare that the following is a fulland clear description of the same, reference being had to the annexeddrawings, making a part of this specification.

Figure l is a perspective view of the machine driven by a crank. Fig. 2is a perspective view of the machine worked by a handle attached to thepiston rod. Fig. 3 is a vertical section through the main body of themachine taken on the dotted line X X in Fig. l, showing the crank,shaft, piston rod and head the openings in the tube and band. Fig. t isa view of the grated bottom.

This invention consists simply in making a tube of tin or any othermetal, of any desired size or height with a piston head neatly fitted init with a rod attached so as to move the piston up and down in themanner of a pump by means of a crank or handle attached to the rod. Thetube is one and ahalf inches in diameter and one and five eighths indepth. rlhere is an arm or post soldered to the side of the tube, theupper end of which is bent so as to form a handle or holder of anydesired size or shape so as to form proper bearings for the crank shaftfour inches above the tube. It may be made in the following form, bybending half an inch from line, then turning back parallel with line,extending two inches, then turned at right angles about two and a halfinches, then turning again to within one inch of the two inches abovementioned, extending about one inch parallel therewith, then turned halfan inch to the place of beginning and soldered firmly to the main arm orpost, or it may be made by bending right the reverse. The crank shaft ismade of No. 7 wire one inch long having a crank seven eighths of an inchlong formed on the end with a wrist formed on it of one fourth of aninch in length to which is attached the pitman for moving the piston. Atthe other end a crank of two inches is formed with a handle of one and ahalf inches in length. This crank shaft is slipped into the bearingsbefore the handle is soldered to the post or arm. This is the dimensionsof the smaller sized machine. At the lower end of the tube is a band ofabout one half an inch in width loosely fitted with openings one fourthof an inch square and corresponding exactly with the openings in thetube and of the same size, so that by turning the band around either waythe openings are closed or made smaller at pleasure, so as to producemore or less agitation in the eggs or cream. This band has a bottom withgrate like bars cut or made in it.

The piston head may be packed with any convenient material, it beingmade of two oval shaped pieces of thin metal, one being fastened to therod firmly, the other slipping loosely on against it and tightened bymeans of a small nut or bur on the end of the rod.

The operation of my egg beater is as follows: The eggs are broken into avessel, the bea-ter set into them. The piston being moved up and down bymeans of the crank draws the eggs in and out through the grate barsuntil they are completely torn in pieces or made perfectly ne andfrothy.

A is the tube or main body of the beater or churn with openings at thelower end of one fourth of an inch square.

B is the piston head made of two thin pieces of metal 0f an oval shapewith the concave edges together forming a hollow between them in which apiece of leather is inserted. By pressing them together it will be seenthat the edges of the leather are forced out at pleasure.

O is a band which slips loosely over the bottom end of the tube and hasopenings one fourth of an inch square corresponding 'with the openingsin the tube and also has notches cut in its lower edge. It has the rackor grate M attached.

D is the arm or post.

E is the rod attached to the pitnian and moved by the crank F in Figs. 1and 3.

G is the handle or holder.

I is the crank for turning the shaft.

J is the handle.

K is the bur or nut for tightening the piston.

M in Fig. 4 is the grated bottom.

To use my invention as a churn it has only to be enlarged to anyconvenient size C, and grated bottom M, all constructed ar-A and ofsufficient strength, the cream put into ranged and operatingsubstantially in the a suitable Vessel, the Crank turned as in themanner described.

case of beat-ing eggs. J. J. PARKER. 5 Having thus described myinvention what Witnesses:

I desire to secure by Letters Patent is- JOHN PEST,

The tube A, in combination with the band WILLIAM B. MASON.

